Lisa Rinna Dance Body Beautiful: Ballroom Body Blast

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All Rise...

"Dance Body Beautiful" is Judge David Johnson's alias.

The Charge

Quick-working dance workouts guaranteed to tone and trim.

The Case

Dancing with the Stars "fan favorite" (their words) Lisa
Rinna and her choreographer Louis van Amstel have put together 67 minutes of
dance-fueled workouts that will no doubt leave you sweaty and short of breath
and that is not a disgusting, chauvinistic comment about Rinna's astoundingly
low-cut workout attire.

Like most fitness videos, the game plan follows the
warm-up/multi-part-regimen/cool-down formula. Rinna opens up each section with a
one-on-one, slowed-down explanation of the moves you, the flabby DVD owner, will
be called upon to execute. After the warm-up and the intro, there will be four
specific workouts that lie ahead:

"Jive, Jam and Kick"

"Hot Salsa Burn"

"Samba Blast"

"Disco Dream Body"

You should immediately notice two things: 1) each workout is geared towards
a specific dance technique and 2) they all sound like side dishes for
Applebee's.

As is the case when I review these discs I can only attest to how the
workouts would probably affect me. The thrust is definitely on cardio and
calorie-burning and I have no doubt that I would be drenched in perspiration and
gasping out unintelligible phrases like "I neff to throge up
imebibly." In other words, I am certain you'll get your fat-torching
money's worth.

Rinna is a solid workout leader, encouraging and smiling despite the fact
she often times looks fearful that her breasts will spill out on the next jive,
jam or kick. But that's the price you pay I suppose when you choose your outfits
based on whether the Taliban would execute you for wearing them in public.

And there you have it. If you like burning off those pounds through the
dancing aerobics, I don't think you can go wrong. The routines are varied and
employ different paces for variety and the production values are solid.